ABSTRACT
Introduction The Dayton Peace Agreements of December 1995 put an official end to the war in Bosnia that had raged through the country since early 1992 and taken an enormous toll on its population, infrastructure and cultural heritage. Mass murders, extrajudicial executions, torture, rape, illegal detention, forced displacement, looting and destruction of religious and cultural sites were common atrocities and estimates point to around 100,000 deaths and 2.2 million displaced people. The Agreements divided the country into two entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, inhabited predominantly by a Bosniak and Bosnian Croat population, and the Republika Srpska, inhabited predominantly by Bosnian Serbs. They also provided for a far-reaching intervention by the international community in both civilian and military affairs in post-war Bosnia. This complexity continues to complicate the Bosnian transitional justice context as well as pose big challenges for any research about the war and post-war realities.1
